| start starting | a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning), he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital, his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen |
| starter | a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough, to make sourdough you need a starter |
button quail
button-quail
bustard quail
hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail
Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
| button | a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes |
| button | any artifact that resembles a button |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
| coat button | a button on a coat |
crank
starter | a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle |
crank handle
starting handle | crank used to start an engine |
| horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
kick starter
kick start | a starter (as on a motorcycle) that is activated with the foot and the weight of the body |
| mouse button | a push button on the mouse |
| panic button | a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency, the circuit is operated by a panic button, when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button |
push button
push
button | an electrical switch operated by pressing, the elevator was operated by push buttons, the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk |
| push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
| release button | a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism |
| reset button | a push button that you press to activate the reset mechanism |
| self-starter | an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internalombustion engine |
| shirt button | a button on a shirt |
starter starter motor
starting motor | an electric motor for starting an engine |
| starting block | block providing bracing for a runner's feet at start of a race |
starting gate
starting stall | a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course |
clitoris
clit
button | a female sexual organ homologous to the penis |
navel
umbilicus
bellybutton
belly button
omphalos
omphalus | a scar where the umbilical cord was attached, you were not supposed to show your navel on television, they argued whether or not Adam had a navel, she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton |
gut issue
hot-button issue | an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions |
starting signal
start | a signal to begin (as in a race), the starting signal was a green light, the runners awaited the start |
| starting post | a post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race) |
| button | a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment, they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate |
appetizer
appetiser
starter | food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) |
start
starting line
scratch
scratch line | a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game |
newcomer
fledgling
fledgeling
starter neophyte freshman newbie
entrant | any new participant in some activity |
| self-starter | an energetic person with unusual initiative |
| starter dispatcher | the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition |
| starter | a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning |
| starting pitcher | (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game |
| button | any of various plant parts that resemble buttons |
button pink
Dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters, closely related to sweet William |
globe amaranth
bachelor's button Gomphrena globosa | tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color |
mescal button
sacred mushroom
magic mushroom | the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus, a source of psilocybin |
cornflower
bachelor's button bluebottle
Centaurea cyanus | an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers |
brass buttons
Cotula coronopifolia | South African herb with golden-yellow globose flower heads, naturalized in moist areas along coast of California, cultivated as an ornamental |
| billy buttons | any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers, Australia and New Zealand |
blazing star button snakeroot gayfeather
gay-feather
snakeroot | any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads |
tansy
golden buttons
scented fern Tanacetum vulgare | common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally |
button tree
button mangrove
Conocarpus erectus | evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood |
orange milkwort
yellow milkwort
candyweed
yellow bachelor's button
Polygala lutea | bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers |
| button snakeroot Eryngium aquaticum | coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots, southeastern United States, often confused with rattlesnake master |
rattlesnake master
rattlesnake's master
button snakeroot Eryngium yuccifolium | coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite |
| button fern Tectaria cicutaria | Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils |